The Government of Japan has decided to provide gratuitous assistance of 323 million Japanese yen to the Cabinet of Ministers of Kyrgyzstan for the 2022 Japanese fiscal year for the implementation of the Human Resource Development Scholarship Program (JDS) project.
According to the press service of the Ministry of Finance, this program is aimed at training personnel of state institutions and local governments of the Kyrgyz Republic.
In this regard, on September 5, 2022, the Ministry of Finance hosted the Signing Ceremony of Exchange Notes and the Grant Agreement on the JDS project between the Cabinet of Ministers of the Kyrgyz Republic represented by Minister of Finance Baketaev, the Government of Japan represented by the Japanese Ambassador to the Kyrgyz Republic Maeda Shigeki and the Permanent Representative of the Japan International Cooperation Agency in the Kyrgyz Republic Kawamoto Hiroyuki.
The goal of the JDS Project is to provide state and municipal employees of the Kyrgyz Republic with the opportunity to obtain a master’s degree at universities in Japan to support the training policy of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Kyrgyz Republic and to develop bilateral relations between Kyrgyzstan and Japan.
The main beneficiaries of the project are young state and municipal employees of the Kyrgyz Republic, who, after completing their studies in Japan, will be involved in the development and implementation of plans for the socio-economic development of the Kyrgyz Republic. Training is provided in such areas as public administration, international relations, information and communication technologies, economics, agriculture and environmental policy.
Since 2006, within the framework of the JDS project, a total of 15 groups of scholarship holders or 250 people from among the state and municipal employees of the Kyrgyz Republic were sent to Japan. To date, 209 of them have successfully defended their dissertations, received a master’s degree, a doctorate and returned to the Kyrgyz Republic, 36 scholarship holders are studying in Japan, and 18 scholarship holders of the 16th group flew to Japan on August 21, 2022 to study.
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